In my opinion one of the best side benefits of having children is that you get to<\/p>\n
read your favorite children\u2019s books again (and again). Then there are the really<\/p>\n
good new ones that weren\u2019t published when you were a child. Here\u2019s a list of<\/p>\n
favorites (compiled with help from Roan).<\/p>\n
Picture books<\/strong><\/p>\n Goodnight Gorilla<\/p>\n The Gray Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher (Molly Bang)<\/p>\n Goodnight Moon<\/p>\n Good Night Fred<\/p>\n Barn Dance<\/p>\n Good Dog Carl<\/p>\n On the Day you were Born (Debra Frasier)<\/p>\n All the places to love and My Mama had a Dancing Heart (Patricia Maclachlan<\/p>\n and others by her)<\/p>\n The Lorax<\/p>\n I\u2019m in Charge of Celebrations (Byrd Baylor and anything else by her)<\/p>\n The Cuddlers (Stacy Towle Morgan \u2013 about snuggling with your family)<\/p>\n Early Readers<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Putter & Tabby by Cynthia Rylant<\/p>\n Henry & Mudge by Cynthia Rylant<\/p>\n Catwings (Ursula LeGuin)<\/p>\n Chapter Books<\/strong><\/p>\n Narnia series (starting with the lion the witch and the wardrobe please)<\/p>\n The Book of Three and the rest of the Prydain books (Lloyd Alexander, actually<\/p>\n anything by him)<\/p>\n A Wrinkle in Time (Madeline L\u2019Engle anything by her)<\/p>\n Watership Down (Richard Adams)<\/p>\n The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings<\/p>\n Little House Books (I used to think I was Laura Ingalls Wilder reincarnated!)<\/p>\n Misty of Chincoteague<\/p>\n Inkheart (trilogy Cornelia Funke)<\/p>\n The Thief Lord (Cornelia Funke)<\/p>\n Not One Damsel in Distress<\/p>\n Heidi<\/p>\n The Witch of Blackbird Pond<\/p>\n Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)<\/p>\n The Moorchild<\/p>\n Sarah Plain and Tall<\/p>\n Swallows and Amazons (Arthur Ransome)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my opinion one of the best side benefits of having children is that you get to read your favorite children\u2019s books again (and again). Then there are the really good new ones that weren\u2019t published when you were a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tillamookclatsopmidwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tillamookclatsopmidwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tillamookclatsopmidwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tillamookclatsopmidwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tillamookclatsopmidwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tillamookclatsopmidwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"http:\/\/tillamookclatsopmidwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tillamookclatsopmidwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tillamookclatsopmidwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tillamookclatsopmidwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}